Auditing Game Screen Readability

Purpose

Find display defects that tests of game state cannot see. A score popup is emitted with the right value and drawn under a HUD panel. Two notices are each correct and land on the same line. A warning line exists and is dimmer than the background dots. A counter is accurate and nobody can say what it counts. Each passes every state assertion and fails the player.

These defects appear only at particular moments, so the audit is organised around moments, not around screens.

When to Use

• HUD elements, notices, warnings, indicators, or score popups were added or moved.
• A reviewer asked what a number or symbol means, or said something was hidden, faint, or small.
• Two events that each show a message can happen on the same frame.
• Before release, once, over the whole display.